Three Ring Binder of Collected Material on Silver City, New Mexico, Together with Photographs of Ben Lilly, Famous if Not Notorius Bear and Mountain Lion Hunter.

Newspaper with the usual tanning, chipping at some edges. Vintage photo with some spotting most apparent with two on bottom edge. ; Orange three ring binder containing: Silver City 2 pages with 6 photocopy newspaper clippings; 8 black paper backed poly sleeves with 32 photocopy news clippings. Dates of the 14 total 1899-1905, most 1883; subjects include cattle rustling, Indian wars, shootings, etc. Newspapers: 5 copies of the Silver City Press, 1960; 1 copy of the Silver City Enterprise, 1978. BEN LILLY: One 6" x 4" vintage silver print standing portrait with B. Lilly written in pencil on back, (c. 1920- ) One envelope containing five 8.5 x 10" glossy photographs of Lilly. The envelope has written on top edge: Ben Lilly (? ). All but one photo are reproductions of Lilly photos seen elsewhere. One is of a man (Lilly ? ) with several hounds, but younger and without the beard. The photos are numbered I-VI, so III is missing. Collected by Bob Stepp, a prominent bookseller, businessman in Silver City, mentioned in one of the newspapers as filling a vacancy on the Pioneer Foundation board. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; "Benjamin Vernon Lilly or Ben Lilly (1856 1936) , nicknamed Ol' Lilly, was a notorious big game hunter, houndsman and mountain man of the late American Old West. He remains famous for hunting down large numbers of grizzly, cougars and black bears. A mix between a transcendentalist spirit and an ardent Christian, he is described as an unfathomable Southern wild character. He was a stern practitioner of simple living and outdoor freedom, roamed and hunted from Louisiana to Arizona and from Idaho to as far south as Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico, and was a subject of American folktales. He died at eighty, on December 17, 1936, on a ranch in Pleasanton, near Silver City, New Mexico. " [Wikipedia].…